Filling-block for phonograph-record cabinets.



E.PO0LER. .PILLING BLOCK FOR PHONOGRAPH RECORD CABINETS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12, 1911.

Patented June 25, 1912.

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FILLING-BLOCK FOR PHONOGRAPH-RECORD CABINETS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1912.

Application filed September 12, 1911. Serial No. 648,992.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EARL PooLnn a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle,

in the county of King and State of lVash- 1ngton, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Filling-Blocks for 'Phonograph-Record Cabinets, of which the following is a specification;

This invention relatesl to: phonograph disk-record cabinets and has for its object cabinet illustratedin my prior Patent No.

,The invention consists in the novel construction of a filling block for the shelves of f t-phonograph disk record cabinets and the l" combination and adaptation thereof with a cabinet as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

In the views accompanying this application, Figure 1 is a front eleva-tional view of a filing cabinet for disk records showing an embodiment of the invention inoperative position therein; and Fig. 12 is a perspective view of one f the said filling blocks.

Referring to said drawings, the reference numeral 1 designates a phonograph record cabinet having provision for the storingof disk records between lower and upper shelves 2 and 3, respectively, provided with suitably spaced parallel transverse grooves 1 heir respective upper and lower surreceive the peripheral edges of the ecords R. Rectangularly shaped fill- "in blocks 5, see Fig. 2, are provided for said lower shelves 2 which are each formed uponjtheir'upper sides with a plurality of parallel transverse grooves 6 of the same the underside of each said block they are each'provided with a transverse ridge 7 ad acent'ea'ch of the lateral sides positioned direetly'subjacent to a selected groove 6 uponits -upper surface. The said ridges 7 are t formed tosinterfit within grooves 4 of the shelves 2 or the grooves 6 of equivalent blocks 5.

The functions of the invention may be described as follows: Phonograph disk records are usually made in certain standard sizes varying in multiples of two inches in their diameters, as twelve, ten and eight inch records. In arranging the shelves in a record cabinet it is found more convenient instead of providing shelves of suitable distances apart to accommodate the respective sizes of recordsto furnish shelves capable of receiving records of the maximum diameters and to provide one or more filling blocks to rest upon the lower shelves 2 to reduce the space between the latter and the upper shelf 3 to adapt them to receive the smaller sizes.

In Fig. 1 is illustrated a cabinet normally adapted to receive twelve-inch records R between its upper and lower shelves and at A isshown a filling block reducing the space therebetween to receive ten-inch records while at B are shown two such superposed blocks further reducing the space to accom- .modate eight-inch records. The ridges 7 insure that the grooves of the blocks are retained in proper alincment with the grooves upon the underside of the uppershelf 3 and by frictional engagement maintain the same in selected positions.

It is obvious that the blocks may be made of widths to occupy any desired space along the shelf and that they may be arranged in various ways and combinations to carry out the purpose of the invention.

What I claim, is 1. In a phonograph record cabinet provided with grooved top and bottom shelves for the reception of disk records, identical filling blocks each provided with parallel grooves upon its upper face and corresponding with the said shelf grooves, each of said blocks being also provided with downwardly directed projections upon the lower side thereof and in vertical alinement with some of said upper face grooves, said downward projections adapted for engagement within some of the grooves of said bottom shelf and another similar block when assembled 0rd cabinets being of a width equal to the difference in diameter? of different sized regulation records, said block provided with equally spaced parallel grooves upon its upper face, downward projections provided upon the lower face of said block in vertical alinement with some of said top grooves and said downward projections adapted for'en- 1 gagement wiigliin grooves of similar blocks when placed in a superposed relation there- 10 with.

EARL POOLE-R.

lVitnesses PIERRE BARNES, E. PETERSON. 

